It's no secret the left despises gun rights and gun owners. But in some parts of the country, that dislike reaches much deeper, becoming a form of discrimination. Take the recent actions of the Los Angeles city council.

The nearby video shows Mark Robinson addressing a city council meeting in Greensboro, North Carolina. In it, he makes an impassioned plea for residents like him -- folks he considers the "silent middle" -- to have their Second Amendment rights respected.

If the anti-Second Amendment crowd was intent on unifying conservatives ahead of the 2018 midterms, they seem to have done it. If they were eager to swell the ranks of gun rights organizations like the NRA, they have done that, too. How did they do so much in so little time?

The media had a field day with the anti-gun protest on the Washington Mall over the weekend. As much as the visuals lent themselves to televsion, and the rhetoric confirmed the biases of many of those covering the event, the hard truth is the speakers were long on emotion, and short on facts.